Chapter 113: Fighting Jinhua Again and Breaking Quzhou II

If you want everyone to be sane, that's not going to happen.

If Hao Shangjiu can keep his whole army calm and calm down, today's battle will definitely end with Xu Du's loss of troops under Quzhou City.

It's a pity that this is not possible.

Hao Shangjiu himself was treated as death by the whole army of Jinhua Army, just like the waves crashing on a reef, the waves knew that they would definitely end up in pieces, and they still slapped without beginning and end.

This kind of cold treatment of the enemy, but also the cold treatment of his own style, made Hao Shangjiu think of an army. It was the Manchu Eight Banners.

In his impression, it seems that only Eight Banners has such a style.

Hao Shangjiu is still like this, and the first person under his command to be shocked is Minfu.

If there is a field war, the people do not play a role, but if it is a defense of the city, the support of the people in the city is a very important factor, and these people were just ordinary people before, and they never had any feelings about fighting.

Faced with such a situation, I couldn't help but feel cold in my hands and feet. Movement deformation. Even a loud reprimand knows what to do. There are also frequent mistakes. Every mistake on the battlefield needs to be redeemed with life.

Under such a scenario.

Fear is a contagious feeling. Soon, Hao Shangjiu found that the morale of his subordinates had become low. Even if he reprimanded loudly and wanted to boost morale, he couldn't motivate him.

Many of the soldiers who attacked the city were Xia soldiers, all of whom were not afraid of death and were among the Qing army, and one or several people died together.

This kind of desperate style of play made the Qing army full of liver and gall.

A general's style is often the same as his army's.

Xu Du is such a resolute general, and this determination is also implemented among his subordinates.

And what kind of general is Hao Shangjiu?

As a native of Henan, in the 134th year of the great famine in Chongzhen, he had to gather people to protect himself, and then defected to the official army to fight in the end. One of the most commendable things about him is that he is adaptable. Or in other words, in order to survive, do anything.

Hao Shangjiu, who crawled out of the pile of countless dead people, seemed to have palpitations and regarded survival as the ultimate goal of his life. Only after a profound dance with death can I know how important and beautiful it is to live.

Therefore, he defected to the official army from the righteous army, followed Gao Jie to join the Xia army, and followed Li Chengdong to betray the Xia army and defect to the Qing army, he never felt a little embarrassed.

As long as you can live, you don't need to talk about morality and faith.

Therefore, such a sleek general and the army he led are naturally his style. It is to bully the soft and fear the hard, and turn into the wind.

Hao Shangjiu can be said to be the epitome of a considerable number of warlords in the late Ming Dynasty.

In the brutal fierce battle that he felt was less than an hour, Quzhou City was already a little precarious. Naturally, he is trying to find a way to preserve his strength and think about how to turn in?

It's just that at this time, Xia Jun finally had a breakthrough.

A whole squad, eleven people, rushed to the head of the city. Xia Jun also had a breakthrough before. But it's just one or two, not a small team, it's two different results. Because the trump card of the Jinhua Army has always been a mandarin duck array.

Although Xu Du made drastic modifications on the basis of the Mandarin Duck Array, and replaced many weapons that were not suitable for marching, such as the wolf sword, with other weapons, the power of the Mandarin Duck Array may be somewhat weakened, but it is more suitable for the cooperation of the team.

Even the reduced version of the Mandarin Duck Formation was able to defeat the Qing soldiers, and they were unable to form an army, and soon occupied a position at the head of the city.

This location is not big, the so-called embankment of thousands of miles, destroyed in the anthill. As long as one place was breached, all the Qing troops defending the city were affected. And Xia Jun almost all cheered, and climbed up with a hundred times the effort.

"You can't do anything." Hao Shangjiu's first thought when he saw this was this.

He immediately picked up the personal guards around him, and instead of rushing to the gap and pressing down the Xia army, he turned around and left, got down from the city, and rushed to the North Gate Wharf, where a group of ships were parked, enough to accommodate more than a thousand people down the river.

It's just that he can't take all the men under his command for a while.

Hao Shangjiu's decision caused the defense of Quzhou City to collapse.

Where the Xia army passed, there was no place to resist, and all that was left was the wind and clouds, and a sweep. After a while, the door was opened. A group of people surrounded Xu Du and entered Quzhou City.

It was only then that the sun had put away its last rays, and the sky had become dark.

From the beginning of the war to the present, in less than an hour, the Jinhua army lost more than 2,000 people, and after the victory, the medical staff were sent to desperately pick people out of the pile of dead. Only then did many soldiers survive. Otherwise, the casualties in this battle will only be more staggering.

Xu Du listened to the casualty figures, and just sighed lightly.

As a famous local scholar in Jinhua, he has traveled to many places, and Quzhou is so close to Jinhua that it is connected by waterways, and Xu Du has been here more than once. But only this time the tickets were so expensive. But what can he say?

Xu Du immediately ordered: "Recruit all the ships in the city, the boatmen, and transfer the baggage to the ship." A battalion was left to guard the place and watch over the prisoners. ”

"Tomorrow morning, continue the march."

Xu Du may be able to have the nickname of General Shenxing, because he has always taken the four words "noble soldiers and speed" to the extreme. A dispatch is only fast, faster, faster.

Xu Du this

This kind of order can hurt Guo Zhiqi.

Guo Zhiqi rushed for a day. After coming to Quzhou City, they couldn't settle down, and all the soldiers and men who escorted the heavy baggage had no time to rest at all, and worked all night.

Countless torches lit up the wharf at the north gate of Quzhou City, and countless people transferred all kinds of grain baggage from the car to the boat. When they arrived in Quzhou City, they only had time to eat a few mouthfuls of dry food and drink a few mouthfuls of water, and then they began to work.

Naturally, no one arranged a job for Guo Zhiqi. It's just that there is no place to be stationed in the entire baggage battalion, and naturally no one cares about Guo Zhiqi.

Guo Zhiqi could only rest with his entourage in the open air on the haystack on one side.

Listening to the sound of countless people's horns and the sound of loading and unloading ships, it is no wonder that Guo Zhiqi can sleep well.

And when it was dawn, someone came and called him.

At this moment, Guo Zhiqi found that many people in the baggage camp had actually left. He asked and found out that most of these people were from Guangxin Mansion, and they could go home after the night. The heavy burden of water transportation requires a greatly reduced number of manpower.

It was enough to recruit some people from Quzhou City, plus some baggage soldiers.

Moreover, some big families in Quzhou City, when the Qing army occupied Quzhou City, had to flatter Hao Shangjiu in order to protect their family business. And now Xu Du is here. They had to bleed profusely again and begged Guo Zhiqi's forgiveness.

At the time of the rise and fall, the people suffered the most.

Guo Zhiqi was a little happy.

for he has a boat to sit on.

Early in the morning of the second day, the army marched out and advanced by water, and the heavy baggage and wounded soldiers were all on board. In this way, the army has been completely lightly armed, and the speed has been greatly improved, although it has not reached the point of three hundred miles in one day and night, but it is only one or two days of work to reach the city of Jinhua.

In fact, this speed is the speed at which the ship is moving. Otherwise, the boat will only go faster by going down the river.

Even so, Xu Du's overwhelming speed still scared Li Chengdong. Within two days, Xu Du encountered the enemy.

To the east from Quzhou Mansion is Longyou County. Longyou County stands on the south side of the Xin'an River, and the Xin'an River and the Qujiang River are actually the same river. If you go down the river, this is a place that can't be bypassed, but the speed of Xu Du is too fast, so fast that the Qing army has no time to deploy in Longyou.

That night, Xu Du was stationed in Longyou County. It was only early the next morning that I got the Tanmalai report, which was thirty miles east of Longyou County. In a small town called Hutou, thousands of Qing troops were stationed.

Xu Du sneered and said, "Does Li Thief think that he can stop me like this?" Wish for the moon. ”

After Hutou Town, it is the boundary of Jinhua Mansion. At this moment, the whole army of Xu Du is full of confidence, and the morale is bursting, and Xu Du does not pay attention to these thousands of Qing troops at all.